I'm not exactly into the Sci Fi shows, but my husband does listen to X Minus one and I have grown to like it some. I have some Dimension X and have listened and somehow that seems to get more interesting. Maybe I am just growing into liking a brand new group of shows.
Shirley

I'm not exactly into the Sci Fi shows, but my husband does listen to X Minus one and I have grown to like it some. I have some Dimension X and have listened and somehow that seems to get more interesting. Maybe I am just growing into liking a brand new group of shows.
Shirley

Shirley. You say you and your husband listen. This brings up a question I've been wondering about.

OK, everyone. How do you listen to old time radio shows? MP3 on the computer, Ipod with headphones or speakers, CD on player?

I listen to them on my computer while working on the Internet and I also listen on my Ipod with headphones and also Ipod with radio hook-up in the car.

I listen in many different ways. I have a small mp3 cd player I take with me in the car and listen through the car speakers. I have an mp3 boombox in the kitchen that I listen with if I am cooking or doing dishes or sweeping. At work I take my small mp3 cd player and use a tiny radio transmitter to listen through the radio that is there. I listen at the computer sometimes, but sometimes the show is almost over and I haven't listened to any of it and don't know what happened. I guess all these posts keep my attention.

At night we have old time radio playing on our stereo. I doubt we have much of a clue what is playing, but we have done this for years. My husband tells people we listen to OTR while we sleep. People give us really strange looks sometimes.
Shirley

I listen in many different ways. I have a small mp3 cd player I take with me in the car and listen through the car speakers. I have an mp3 boombox in the kitchen that I listen with if I am cooking or doing dishes or sweeping. At work I take my small mp3 cd player and use a tiny radio transmitter to listen through the radio that is there. I listen at the computer sometimes, but sometimes the show is almost over and I haven't listened to any of it and don't know what happened. I guess all these posts keep my attention.

At night we have old time radio playing on our stereo. I doubt we have much of a clue what is playing, but we have done this for years. My husband tells people we listen to OTR while we sleep. People give us really strange looks sometimes.
Shirley

When I started listening it was on a streaming Live365 show. Now I listen to ones I download through my iPod at work. I also have a set of detective cd's and a box set of tapes with various shows. I take those to work with me too.
Plus I got some CD's from OTRCAT before.

Okay . . . I'll excuse you for purchasing OTR this time, Adeny. Never pay for something that someone such as myself, Randy (majorshaw) or Shirley, will be tickled pink to provide for nada . . .

We can host the files, point you to where they're available or even mail you a disc or two . . .

Victor
we love to share!

Wow, I'd be embarrassed to tell you folks what I've spent on disks over the last few years. I didn't know so many people were sharing the shows.
The disk dealers must have seen me coming from a long way off.

Hey, Brad, don't feel embarrassed -- most of us started off buying our OTR. I thought it was a great thing when I happened to discover that you could get old radio shows on MP3s.

I was following an ad for e-books on CD placed by spinsmart.com, and found they also sold radio MP3s. Up till then I had never played an MP3 in my life because I thought they only featured the latest modern music. How wrong can you be?

It wasn't until 2005 that I started to get some idea of just how many people were collecting Old Time Radio and how many of them were on the Internet.

Of the golden age shows, X-Minus One is it for sci-fi, but there have been some excellent contemporary shows as well, including Alien Worlds, which was produced in the late '70s, and Bradbury 13, which came out in 1984. And then there's my all-time favorite, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy!

X-Minus One and Dimension X are high on my list of favorites. I also like "Alien Worlds," which aired in 1978-79 and features some very thought-provoking stories and wonderful production values. At least one episode was written by J. Michael Strazinski (sp?), who later created "Babylon 5". I burned this series to CD and gave it to my 13-year-old nephew as a Christmas present. Hopefully, that will help hook him on OTR.

As far as my OTR listening habits go, I either stream episodes on the computer or download them to my MP3 player for offline listening, either through headphones or an old pair of computer speakers, in the car via a cassette adapter, or on my home stereo system via a patch cable.

X-Minus One and Dimension X are high on my list of favorites. I also like "Alien Worlds," which aired in 1978-79 and features some very thought-provoking stories and wonderful production values. At least one episode was written by J. Michael Strazinski (sp?), who later created "Babylon 5". I burned this series to CD and gave it to my 13-year-old nephew as a Christmas present. Hopefully, that will help hook him on OTR.

As far as my OTR listening habits go, I either stream episodes on the computer or download them to my MP3 player for offline listening, either through headphones or an old pair of computer speakers, in the car via a cassette adapter, or on my home stereo system via a patch cable.

Some of the newer car stereo systems will play mp3 cd's. How cool would that be on a long car trip to have hundreds of OTR shows all on one disk

I don't have one of those but I do have the gadget that lets me hook up my ipod to the car stereo. That's OK too.